This report is dedicated to Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, the founding Director of the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (NCO). His leadership was instrumental in establishing the NCO as a model for interagency cooperation and coordination of the R&D investments in HPCC across twelve Federal departments and agencies. From September, 1992, to March, 1995, Lindberg served concurrently as Director of the NCO and Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). He has returned to directing NLM full time, where he will continue to play an active role in NIH/NLM's HPCC Program and help define the strategies for America's Information Future.